| Description | Present at the meeting: Professor P F Frankland in the chair; Mr A C Chapman; Sir James Dobbie; Professor F G Donnan; Dr A Schuster; Dr A Scott
1. Minutes of previous meeting read and signed.
2. Minute of Council passed at a meeting of 30 March 1916 read to the Committee together with the appended letter from the Board of Trade. {Contents of both listed - Council does not approve unconditional exemption of all qualilfied chemists, and make recommendations, and letter from Board of Trade notes 'with satisfaction the rules which have been drawn up by Council of the Royal Society for the guidance of the Committee of which the claims of chemists for exemption are referred'.]
3. Decisions listed for applications of exemptions since the last meeting;
R J Young - working with J Young & Sons, Pharmaceutical Dispensing and Analytical Chemists, Leicester. Agreed this was not a case the Royal Society could recommend unconditional exemption but that postponement of service be recommended.
H Wilson - Chemnist with Benton's Patents Limited, Birmingham. Agreed this case for exemption under terms of Regulation 3
S G Clifford - Analytical and Works Chemist with Messrs Waterlow & Sons, London Wall, E. Agreed this case recommended for exemption under Regulation 3.
H. Housely - Research Chemist with Messrs Tootal Broadhurst Lee & Co., Manchester. Agreed this not a case where the Royal Society could recommend unconditional exemption but that postponement of service be recommended under Regulation 2, and, further, that this case be recommended to the Executive Committee as one suitable for exemption under Regulation 3.
H Ehrhardt - Research Chemist with Mersey Chemical Works Ltd., Liverpool. Agreed this case be recommended for exemption under Regulation 3.
4. Agreed to recommend to Council that Regulation 2 be expended so as to include war work generally for any department of State without restriction to the Ministry of Munitions.
5. Agreed the cases recommended for postponement under Regulation 2 be reported to the Ministry of Munitions. |